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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 3-3-32 on page I-174 in "Customizing numerical data representation".
%%
%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
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%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c
%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
%%
%% See https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
%%

\documentclass{tlc3exa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{183.0pt}
\setlength\parindent{0pt}
%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{siunitx}
\newcommand\sample[1]{#1: \num{0.005} \hfill
      \num{0.03} \hfill \num{123.4(1)} \\[5pt]}
%StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
                                      \sample{A}
\sisetup{exponent-mode=scientific}    \sample{B}
\sisetup{exponent-mode=engineering}   \sample{C}
\sisetup{exponent-mode=fixed,fixed-exponent=-2}
                                      \sample{D}
\end{document}
